Immigrant Theatre Artists Join to Fight Xenophobia, Provide Resources
The new Immigrant Theatermakers Advocates initiative, grown out of programs by 2 New York companies, plans to build community and provide resources for immigrant artists.
All Stories About immigrants
Bilingual in Boston: Theatre By and For Immigrants
3 theatre companies have energized South Asian, Chinese, and Latin American audiences by staging plays in their first languages.
Martyna Majok’s ‘Cost of Living,’ in This Economy?
With a Broadway debut about disabled folks and their caretakers, the playwright of ‘Sanctuary City’ and ‘Ironbound’ is again writing at the margins.
Jocelyn Bioh: ‘African Comedy’ Is Not a Contradiction in Terms
The writer of ‘School Girls’ and ‘Goddess’ writes stories American theatres haven’t seen before but that audiences immediately recognize.
Dear American Theatre: Don’t Forget About Immigrant Artists
One writer’s extraordinary efforts to prove extraordinary ability for an O-1 visa.
Offscript: Stage Migrations
Blanka Zizka, Carmen Rivera, Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, Maria Manuela Goyanes, and Ngozi Anyanwu discuss the immigrant and first-generation American experience in theatre.
Who Do We Think We Are?
America’s self-definition as a nation of immigrants is under threat, as are immigrants themselves. How are U.S. stages and artists dramatizing this moment?
The Chicken Salad Incident
America may call itself a nation of immigrants, but our stories are still scarce on U.S. stages. Let’s change that.
Perchance to DREAM
DACA recipients, feeling unwelcome in the country they call home, claim a home onstage.
The Refuge of the Stage
What roles can theatre play in the global refugee crisis? Healing, representation—and diversion.
